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Sameer, <div><br></div><div>I do not think the Sheevaplug will make a very good school server as the Sheevaplug has insufficient I/O. On the other hand the OpenRD Client should make a reasonable XS as it has a ton of I/O including 2 ethernet ports each running at 1 Gbit.</div><div>Mind you the Sheevaplug would make a decent asterisk server for a small village.</div><div><br></div><div>I am currently using the Sheevaplug as a webserver and have it set it up so it boots off of a 2.5 inch HDD I placed in a USB enclosure.</div><div>Trying to decide whether to ruin its uptime by bringing it to the meeting on the 22nd.</div><div><br></div><div>I am waiting for the OpenRD Client kernel patches to make it upstream before I start working o the XS ARM port.</div><div>My understanding is that the XS is going to be re-based to Fed 11 which would make things simpler for me as there is Fed 11 for ARM.</div><div><br></div><div>Not sure if I will make it to the picnic.. </div><div><br></div><div>/Robert H.</div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 13, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Grant Bowman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grantbow@gmail.com">grantbow@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><p>After it was back ordered for weeks I finally got a developer machine. I sshed into it and thought all would be fine. I set it aside until yesterday when I tried to get it running again. From the symptoms, some #openplug IRC and some forum posts I read my guess is that the power supply failed. Global Scale has responded quickly. They are shipping me a new one with a return shipping label. The unit has promise but it seems they are still working out some issues. Not ready for any deployments yet, lol.</p><p>Grant Bowman<br> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam</a></p></blockquote><div><br>I would say, that once the glitches are ironed out, the SheevaPlug will make one *very* good school server!<br> <br>Sameer <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><p><br> </p><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 13, 2009 7:23 PM, "Sameer Verma" <<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu" target="_blank">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><p><font color="#500050">On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Christoph Derndorfer <<a href="mailto:e0425826@student.tuwien.ac.at" target="_blank">e0425826@student.tuwien.ac.at</a>> wrote: > > Rob...</font></p><div class="im"><div><br><a href="http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsp" target="_blank">http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsp</a> and <a href="http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/openrd.jsp" target="_blank">http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/openrd.jsp</a><br> <font color="#888888"> <br>Sameer<br></font></div></div></div><p><font color="#500050">-- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State Universit...</font></p><div class="im"><br>_______________________________________________<br> OLPC-SF mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:OLPC-SF@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">OLPC-SF@lists.laptop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf</a><br> <br></div></blockquote> <br>_______________________________________________<br> OLPC-SF mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:OLPC-SF@lists.laptop.org">OLPC-SF@lists.laptop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">OLPC-SF mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:OLPC-SF@lists.laptop.org">OLPC-SF@lists.laptop.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>